The Novelist & the Rapper
10 best books like The Novelist & the Rapper (Mickey Hess): I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women, Map of My Heart, Thirst, I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories, The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories, The Map of the System of Human Knowledge, Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes, A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History
I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women
| Author | Caroline Bergvall |
| ISBN | 1934254332 |
Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and I’ll Drown My Book represents the contributions of women in this defining moment. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, I’ll Drown My Book takes its name from a poem by Bernadette...
| Author | John Porcellino |
| ISBN | 1897299931 |
Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of The King-Cat Zine
Map of My Heart celebrates the twentieth anniversary of John Porcellino's seminal and influential comics zine, King-Cat Comics, which he started self-publishing in 1989 and which has been his predominant means of expression....
| Author | Ken Kalfus |
| ISBN | 1571310185 |
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"
I'll...
| Author | John Haskell |
| ISBN | 0312421869 |
A bewitching collection of short fiction--haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and life. In "Dream of a Clean Slate," Jackson Pollock the man struggles with the separation he feels from Jackson Pollock the artist; "The Judgement of Psycho," probes the sexual dynamic of...
| Author | Russ Kick |
| ISBN | 1609803809 |
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The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume,...
| Author | Rick Moody |
| ISBN | 0316706280 |
(view spoiler)[When I was young, I read too much too soon. This was probably one of them.
The inscription on the flap of the paperback copy of this (which I intend to hungrily peddle today to the local bookmongers before an evening spent in the kitchen of a restaurant whose name literally translates...
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge is a short encyclopedia, full of entries that waver between fiction and memoir, poetry and prose, realism and irrealism.
Construction workers build Indiana’s first official mountain. The entrails of vacuum cleaners are examined for hints of a dark...
| Author | Mark Crick |
| ISBN | 0151012830 |
I needed a table at Maxim’s, a hundred bucks, and a gorgeous blonde; what I had was a leg of lamb and no clues. I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner’s handshake. I took out a knife and cut the lamb into pieces. Feeling the blade in my hand I sliced an onion, and before I knew what I was...
A quick seven stories/essays, some of which are contained in "The Braindead Megaphone." Saunders is hilarious throughout, and I especially love "Flooding the Zone: A New Approach to Global Diplomacy" where Saunders proposes flooding the entirety of nations into one another for a period of time,...
| Author | Franco Moretti |
| ISBN | 1844670260 |
Professor Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. He insists that such a move could bring new luster to a tired field, one that in some respects is among “the most backwards disciplines in the academy.”...
Contents:
Life story by John Barth
The seventh trunk by Heinrich Böll
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again by Joyce Carol Oates
The coal shoveller by Keith Fort
Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges
Gogol's...
| Author | John Reimringer |
| ISBN | 1571310800 |
Let me begin today, illumined by Thy light, to destroy this part of the natural man which lives in me in its entirety, the obstacle that constantly keeps me from Thy Love. Taught this prayer as a boy by his grandfather, James Dressler recites it each time he’s tempted by earthly desires. Originally drawn...
| Author | Nicholson Baker |
| ISBN | 0679776249 |
What happened to Nicholson Baker, I wonder? The earliest pieces collected in The Size of Thoughts are so dazzling that, when I first dipped into them, I nearly fell off my barstool. (Okay, it was actually a food court stool, but still, I was all set to jab my plastic fork in my chest out of sheer, dyspeptic...
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0872863115 |
"This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history.
From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Even though some say that an avant-garde in literature...
In eight illustrated books, elegantly held together in a single beribboned case, McSweeney’s 28 explores the state of the fable—those astute and irreducible allegories one doesn’t see so much anymore in our strange new age, when everyone is wild for the latest parable or apologue but can’t...
| Author | Evan Dara |
| ISBN | 1573660388 |
It may be the defining irony of our time: just as we are coming to recognize our shared destiny and necessary interdependence, our culture seems to be fracturing along every fault line available to it. The Lost Scrapbook is a novel that passionately captures the contradictory richness of our historical...
The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg
| Author | Geoff Herbach |
| ISBN | 0307396371 |
“Believe the hype. I killed myself.”
Having destroyed his life, the suicidal T. Rimberg strikes out on a journey through history and geography. From Minneapolis to Europe to a fiery accident near Green Bay, he searches for a father who is likely dead, digs for meaning where he’s sure...
North Country: The Making of Minnesota
| Author | Mary Lethert Wingerd |
| ISBN | 0816648689 |
In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.–Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of...
| Author | Bhanu Kapil |
| ISBN | 0932716709 |
Poetry. Cross-Genre. Asian American Studies. In this new prose document, Bhanu Kapil follows a film crew to the Bengal jungle to re-encounter the true account of two girls found living with wolves in 1921. Taking as its source text the diary of the missionary who strove to rehabilitate these orphans...
| Author | Georgi Gospodinov |
| ISBN | 1564783766 |
Gospodinov flits and buzzes among various subjects -- from graffiti in public toilets to the movies of Quentin Tarantino -- in this tale of a young Bulgarian writer who decides to create his own version of a "natural novel" assembled from the bits and pieces of everyday life. At its center is a poignant...
| Author | Shelley Jackson |
| ISBN | 1884511236 |
I am bored so in light of that...
Patchwork Girl, quite frankly, pissed me off at first. It was too disorganized for my liking, but because I had to read it I made myself work through it. And, it turns out...I quite loved it! The disconnectedness, the lack of structure, and overall madness worked...
| Author | Emily Carter |
| ISBN | 1852428244 |
From her patrician childhood on New York?s Upper East Side, to her chemical addictions downtown, and her unlikely, tenuous yet rewarding alliances on 12-step rehab programs in the Midwest, Glory gives us an uncensored and irreverent account of her experiences scoring dope on the streets and seeking...
| Author | Ben Katchor |
| ISBN | 0140159975 |
The classic graphic novel by the landmark cartoonist is back in print for its twenty-fifth anniversary
Cheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumpled, middle-aged Julius Knipl photographs...
| Author | James Eli Shiffer |
| ISBN | 0816698295 |
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers—hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers—into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city’s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken...
